Seesmic Raises Another $6 Million Round

0

Video conversation startup Seesmic raised another $6 million in a series B financing. The round was co-led by Omidyar Network and Wellington Partners. The series A financing last February, which was also for $6 million, was led by Atomico (the investment vehicle of Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis), and included angel investors Reid Hoffman, Steve Case, Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, and Martin Varsavsky. (Disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was also an angel investor in the first round).

Seesmic is designed to encourage video conversations among loose social groups (many of whom find each other on Seesmic). Since it launched in a private alpha last October, it’s attracted 21,000 users who post about 2,500 videos a day. Those videos, in turn, are watched about 300,000 times a day. Since last week, Seesmic has opened up its doors to all comers.

The company also owns Twhirl, a desktop Twitter/FriendFeed client that has been downloaded 400,000 times. Founder Loic Le Meur estimates that Twhirl accounts for 12 percent of all Twitter messages, and 5 percent of all FriendFeed comments.

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and Seesmic’s new board member, talks about his investment below:

0

Crunchbase

OverviewSeesmic is a powerful suite of social media management and collaboration tools that provide businesses and individuals with everything they need to build and manage their brands online.
With applications on [every platform](http://seesmic.com/products), including mobile devices, and a marketplace of over 80 third-party plugins, Seesmic is the most comprehensive solution on the market.
Seesmic …

OverviewTwhirl is a free desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service that is powered by the cross-platform Adobe AIR. The application helps the user sort through incoming "Tweets" by color coding them and allowing timeline filtering and visual & auditory notifications.
There are many additional features that are not available on the standard Twitter site, such as favorites settings, URL shortening, …